[milwaukee-electric] Re: Milwaukee slums during the 1940s and afterward

[Gary Schnabl]

On 11/17/2010 1:04 AM, Don L. Leistikow wrote:
> Scott G and list:    Your comment, back on 11/7, is nominomly correct.
>
> I recall a photograph looking east on the private right of way at about
> 20th street, to which the Press had superimposed a concrete roadway with
> automobiles on it.   IIRC, that was about 1945 and the doctored photo
> appeared in the Milwaukee Journal.
>
> I'm sure that this photo has reappeared in various publications as
> evidence in support of Freeway Construction.
>
> In defense of what we had...... I once rode west from the PSB to 68th
> street, non-stop... in 7 minutes flat... and that included 6 blocks of
> street running.  The year was 1940, and you cannot do that today!
>
> A class operation, that was.  And remember:
>
> There is Nothing Free, about the Freeway
>
>
> Don L.
At sixteen E-W blocks per mile, the PROW segment of that 7-minute run 
would have been 60 blocks or so (not accounting for "bend 
allowance"...), or just under four miles.

Is the manual about the Nachod signals that you copied from the 
Speedrail operations manual available?
-- 

Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...